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You never know what you'll find when you excavate along the water

Old boat in the South Boston seaport

Thomas Mann reports workers excavating at 121 Seaport Blvd for the waterfront's latest luxostructure today discovered they'd driven a pile right through an old wooden boat that had lain there for God knows how long.

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Ishmael

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Same thing happened, I believe more than once, when they were digging the central artery tunnel. Much of Boston is fill, and back in the 18th and 19th centuries fill included anything you could dump in a hole, including old rotten boats and other garbage.

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Does that affect the integrity of the pile? Will they have to pull it up and redrive it

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That pile goes through whatever, all the way to bedrock. It may affect the timeline of the rest of the summer, though, depending on whether the City Archaeologist (yup, a thing) decides he needs that boat.

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luxostructure. perfect!

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Great term.

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Like that.

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